Look, a Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics

In Look, a Negro! , political theorist Robert Gooding-Williams imaginatively and impressively unpacks fundamental questions around race and racism. Inspired by Frantz Fanon's famous description of the profound effect of being singled out by a white child with the words Look, a Negro!, his book is an insightful, rich and unusually wide-ranging work of social criticism.

These essays engage themes that have dominated debates on race and racial identity in recent years: the workings of racial id...